off the margins pushes the boundaries of language, conventional form, blended genre, and prose flash, featuring women writers who fearlessly tell the truth and risk vulnerability to give voice to their experience. Together we are writing our collective history, considering what we know, and asking how we can craft our yet unwritten lives. We encourage dialogue between our writers and readers.

When I dive into the writing of a poem, I am entering an altered state, inhabiting a world of remembering, reimagining and reconstructing that can transcend the world that already exists. In order for that to happen, I reach for the emotional components, the human pieces, the movement in the place or the event. …

I have found that narrating a new life in my late fifties, however precarious and unsettling, has been a gift. While I was grieving the end of one story, I was quietly building a new one, even when I did not always realize that I was doing so. I am not the most patient person,…

I cannot shy away from whatever truth I find within myself or out in the world no matter how difficult it is to look at it. I seek to make myself as vulnerable on the page as possible. It is through showing my fallibilities with all their ugly splendor that I can connect with readers…